Tag Archives: Climate Change

This is a slightly longer version of an op-ed that appeared in the Globe and Mail. Click here for the original op-ed. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and subject of recent documentary Cool It, advocates a slow and … Continue reading →

– an op-ed for my American friends – While America dithers on climate change, China is winning the fight for the biggest economic pie of the 21st century – the clean energy economy. Worse, China is playing the US … Continue reading →

You can’t have it both ways. In one breath new Environment Minister Peter Kent claims the emissions from the Tar Sands are too small to matter (it’s 5% of Canada’s total ghg emissions). Yet at the same time the claim … Continue reading →

This is a piece of mine, first published on The Mark News, calling out climate skepticism as a socially damaging, pseudo-intellectual pursuit. While skeptics – Wente, Murphy, Beck – may paint themselves as brave knights bucking social norms, they are … Continue reading →

In the face of another diplomatic disappointment in Cancun’s climate change talks, we approach the end of the hottest year on record. While experts again try to ring alarm bells, our media still gives voice to the pseudo-intellectual pursuit of … Continue reading →

>CDMs (Clean Development Mechanisms) aren’t working; and won’t – unless they are buttressed by a strong regulatory environment that independently ensures best practices in energy generation. Designed to increase the flow of money from developed to developing nations, and to … Continue reading →

>Latest news release from China – just as the US decides to abandon trying for a cap and trade bill: “BEIJING — The country is set to begin domestic carbon trading programs during its 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015) to … Continue reading →

>Jeffrey Simpson has articulated a thought that has long been ill-formed in my mind about the irresponsible, and fundamentally dishonest, position of what he calls climate change “scoffers”. Not full deniers, who are willing to take a position on what … Continue reading →

> Here is another bit of my upcoming book:Ten Technologies to Save the World – Kicking the Fossil Fuel Habit. Aside from the Ten Technologies, a number of small essays are included. Three on Climate Science (The Basics, The Complex, … Continue reading →